Quotes of: Criminal Keyword

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

Bill McCollum

My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

David Guterson

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

Steve Earle

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

Earl Warren

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

Victor Hugo

Moreover, in the system of criminal punishment in the libertarian world, the emphasis would never be, as it is now, on "society's" jailing the criminal; the emphasis would necessarily be on compelling the criminal to make restitution to the victim of...

Murray N. Rothbard

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

John Yoo

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.

Kamala Harris

In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.

Liu Xiaobo

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

Louis D. Brandeis

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

Ben Whishaw

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

Henry Louis Gates

Jason: You don't look like a criminal. Jonathan Mardukas: I'm a white-collar criminal.

Midnight Run

There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.

Ronald Biggs

An individual's refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

Noam Chomsky

I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion.

Jay Weatherill

The Australians are actually the worst of the criminals from the United Kingdom, but not worst as in toughest. They're the ones who did stupid little things and got caught for it. Bad criminals.

Joel Edgerton

The ego is a palpable body part in an attorney, perhaps the most prominent body part.

Case of a Lifetime: A Criminal Defense Lawyer's Story

Every criminal would be an artist if he had the talent, and every artist would become a criminal if he had the guts.

The Salinger Contract

Whattaya mean you ain’t no criminal lawyer? You a lawyer right? And you in here, that means you also a criminal.

Unreasonable Force

In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals.

Rick Perry